[GiNaC-devel] Switch UniPoly to cl_UP_MI

[Jens Vollinga]

Dear all,

with the latest commit 2a5d912dc940... the polynomial factorization now 
uses the cln class cl_UP_MI instead of the ad-hoc invented UniPoly class.

Maybe it is interesting to note that my benchmarks show no improvements 
in speed at all (rather some tiny change for the worse). This is kind of 
disappointing, because I expected some decent improvement due to the 
inefficient and times stupid ways UniPoly was set up.

Maybe this recent remark on the cln mailing list gives a good 
explanation for that finding:

Alexei Sheplyakov schrieb:
 > For example, the same univariate GCD code works about 3 -- 10 times
 > faster (and uses less memory) if I use std::vector<cl_I> instead of
 > cl_UP.

Well, at least the line count in factor.cpp has decreased.

Regards,
Jens